Jews Brothers Bloomsday

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All Ages

Auckland central’s annual Bloomsday show is on again this month, one night only.

This year’s show has Lucy Lawless returning as Gerty MacDowell, Jennifer Ward-Lealand reading from Molly Bloom’s notorious monologue, Michael Hurst as a British squaddie (and singing Finnegan’s Wake) and Lord of the Rings' Bruce Hopkins as a transvestite dominatrix.

When it first appeared in 1922, Joyce’s 900-page whopper had a bit of a mixed reception.

In his home town, the Dublin Sunday Express boldly pronounced: “The obscenity of Rabelais is innocent compared with the leprous and scabrous horrors of Joyce’s book… All the secret sewers of vice are canalised in its flood of unimaginable thoughts, images and pornographic words.”

Ably assisted by this sort of promotion, its fame spread.
A signed first edition will now set you back half-a-million dollars.